culture night

maurice at work

 

me as the trapper and matt as a beekeeper promoting culture night

 the kind folk of the black box asked me to come along on culture night to do a bit of sketchin and also to maybe do some puppets.

i've been doin a fair bit of puppet work. workshops with sock puppets...several festivals around ireland and i'm happy to say a busy and enjoyable life as well.

this is a prototype for a larger live in puppet like the trapper. the function of this one though is to be a painter so i really needed to have an attempt at creatin artwork with it half made to see if it would function. paintin one handed and puppet with left was a challenge.

result...it worked

sometimes when you public sketch people are a little nervous of approachin but with the puppet it was so obvious a performance that folk seemed very keen to come over and watch. the place ended up bunged and i gained a good load of attention.

 a few people were really taken by it and one person in particular spent a lot of time comin back to chat. she asked if she could have  a picture and i thought. sure why not? i had sold one but i ended up lettin them all go at the end. its better for them to be on walls i guess and i gained good experience with this performance. its only half started like and it looks great doesn't it?

the whole performance lasted around 6 hours goin from paintin to readin books to chattin to dancin and general muckin around. i enjoyed myself so thanks sarah from blackbox for askin me to do this and for takin these great photies.